January 2010
27 posts
RT @Justin_Steele I, Cthulhu, or, What’s A Tentacle-Faced Thing Like Me Doing In A Sunken City Like This ?http://bit.ly/8rFkzU
Jan 1st
Heart will never melt/ sheilds up, and keep your distance/ the artic circle
Jan 1st
December 2009
46 posts
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WHAT IS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE? →
Via Imaginary Foundation
Dec 31st
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Ignite →
“If you had five minutes on stage what would you say? What if you only got 20 slides and they rotated automatically after 15 seconds? Around the world geeks have been putting together Ignite nights to show their answers.” Via Simon G
Dec 31st
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Repair Manifesto →
“The Dutch design collaborative Platform 21 has launched a new project to promote repairing things as an alternative to recycling them or throwing them away. See their “Repair Manifesto” below.” Via Boing Boing
Dec 31st
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Fallacies: alphabetic list (full list) →
Dec 31st
The poet arrives/ upon a BC ferry/ to noodle box please
Dec 31st
Ho ho ha ha ha/ laughter yoga and salmon/ my parents host well
Dec 26th
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The addiction affliction →
“Like a compulsive crack user desperately sucking on a broken pipe, we can’t get enough of addiction. We got hooked on the concept a few centuries back, originally to describe the compulsive intake of alcohol and, later, the excessive use of drugs like heroin and cocaine. Now it seems like we’re using it every chance we can get—applying the concept to any behavior that seems...
Dec 25th
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The Power of Nothing →
excerpt: “But that ‘nothing’ – it’s a powerful thing. As incentive, as punishment, as warning. We, the human race,  are born having to dream. We need it. We need to look up into the sky and see the stars, and believe in them, or in a God who dwells beyond them – something – something – SOMETHING…”
Dec 25th
Put Fallout 3 on / Lasagna, eggnog, and rum/ it feels like Christmas
Dec 25th
Rarely understand/ A cause of my heart’s ache/ Read Dresden codak
Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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UNKNOWN FIELDS DIVISION AA INTER UNIT 7_The End... →
“design fiction from a crack squad of Architecture Association students” Via Warren Ellis
Dec 24th
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The 'Rare Earth' delusion →
Dec 23rd
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Citizen Science: becoming involved in serious... →
Dec 23rd
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How many slices does it take to accurately judge... →
Dec 23rd
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Grieving Chimps →
Dec 23rd
My hour is up/ a brief respite from chaos/ back into the fray
Dec 22nd
Shift into top gear/ cruising up in twenty-fourth/ damn I love my bike
Dec 22nd
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Toward a meaningful definition of posthuman... →
Via Sentient Developments
Dec 21st
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On the baggage of Transhumanism →
via Sentient Developments
Dec 21st
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Dec 21st
Bring your bag of dice/ players manual and pen/ tonight we hunt grue
Dec 20th
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Toadz Mix For the Masses →
Dec 19th
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Dec 15th
potato leek soup herby gureyere dumplings too its om nomming time
Dec 11th
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ExtInked: Tattoos to save the world - CultureLab -... →
“ExtInked, where people came from far and wide to have one of Britain’s most endangered species permanently tattooed on their body, making them a life long ambassador for that species.”
Dec 10th
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Tomatoes can 'eat' insects - Telegraph →
“Garden vegetables such as tomatoes and potatoes have been found to be deadly killers on a par with Venus fly traps, according to research.” Via Neatorama
Dec 10th
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Japanese Street Addresses and Other Cultural... →
“ This video by musician and entrepreneur Derek Sivers provides several examples of American cultural norms that are counterintuitive in other societies. For example, Americans navigate roads with street addresses, but Japanese streets don’t have names. “
Dec 10th
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Personal Branding Iron – Neatorama →
“This company will make a tiny branding iron with your name on it! The product is a metal part that will replace the head of a disposable cigarette lighter.”
Dec 10th
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Writer Evan Ratliff Tried to Vanish: Here’s What... →
Saw this in the most recent Wired at work.
Dec 10th
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Internet Vices - Patrick Moberg →
Excerpt: “Facebook is a vodka cranberry: Social lubricant used to enhance still developing social etiquette. You’re aware of your uninhibited actions, but comforted by the built in safety net of excuses.” Via Neatorama
Dec 10th
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BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Sniff test to... →
“The key to preserving the old, degrading paper of treasured, ageing books is contained in the smell of their pages, say scientists” Via Neatorama
Dec 10th
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7 Badass Vikings →
Via Neatorama
Dec 10th
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Dec 7th
The Bitch is Back →
2009’s most influential author is a mirthless Russian-American who loves money, hates God, and swings a gigantic dick. She died in 1982, but her spawn soldier on. And the Great Recession is all their fault Via Coilhouse
Dec 5th
The Edge Case: Indies Rally To Raise Copyfight... →
“In a nutshell: Langdell’s Edge Games, a UK-based publisher in the earliest days of home computer games, has tirelessly struggled to maintain ownership over the word against any would-be competitor, regardless of discipline, growing more convoluted and ludicrous the farther down the rabbit hole you go (the Chaos Edge blog is the most damning at documenting just how bizarre it’s...
Dec 1st